Pyrosequencing reveals sponge specific bacterial communities in marine sponges of red sea, Saudi Arabia
Joint Authors
Bibi, Fehmida
Alvi, Sana Akhtar
Nusayr, Muhammad Umran
al-Sufyani, Abd al-Muhsin
Azhar, Isam Ibrahim
Yasir, Muhammad
Source
Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
Issue
Vol. 27, Issue 1 (31 Jan. 2020), pp.67-73, 7 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2020-01-31
Country of Publication
Saudi Arabia
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Bacterial communities of marine sponges are believed to be an important partner for host survival but remain poorly studied.
Sponges show difference in richness and abundance of microbial population inhabiting them.
Three marine sponges belonging to the species of Pione vastifica, Siphonochalina siphonella and Suberea mollis were collected from Red sea in Jeddah and were investigated using high throughput sequencing.
Highly diverse communities containing 105 OTUs were identified in S.
mollis host.
Only 61 and 43 OTUs were found in P.
vastifica and S.
siphonella respectively.
We identified 10 different bacterial phyla and 31 genera using 27,356 sequences.
Most of the OTUs belong to phylum Proteobacteria (29%–99%) comprising of Gammaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, and Deltaproteobacteria where later two were only detected in HMA sponge, S.
mollis.
A number of 16S rRNA sequences (25%) were not identified to phylum level and may be novel taxa.
Richness of bacterial community and Shannon, Simpson diversity revealed that sponge S.
mollis harbors high diversity compared to other two LMA sponges.
Dominance of Proteobacteria in sponges may indicate an ecological significance of this phylum in the Red sea sponges.
These differences in bacterial composition may be due to difference in location site or host responses to environmental conditions.
To the best of our knowledge, the microbial communities of these sponges have never been studied before and this is first attempt to unravel bacterial diversity using PCR-based 454-pyrosequencing method.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bibi, Fehmida& Alvi, Sana Akhtar& al-Sufyani, Abd al-Muhsin& Nusayr, Muhammad Umran& Yasir, Muhammad& Azhar, Isam Ibrahim. 2020. Pyrosequencing reveals sponge specific bacterial communities in marine sponges of red sea, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences،Vol. 27, no. 1, pp.67-73.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-920460
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bibi, Fehmida…[et al.]. Pyrosequencing reveals sponge specific bacterial communities in marine sponges of red sea, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences Vol. 27, no. 1 (Jan. 2020), pp.67-73.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-920460
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bibi, Fehmida& Alvi, Sana Akhtar& al-Sufyani, Abd al-Muhsin& Nusayr, Muhammad Umran& Yasir, Muhammad& Azhar, Isam Ibrahim. Pyrosequencing reveals sponge specific bacterial communities in marine sponges of red sea, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 2020. Vol. 27, no. 1, pp.67-73.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-920460
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 73
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BIM-920460